1. Max Erik Tegmark was born on 5 May 1967 and is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author.
13 Facts About Max Tegmark
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Max Tegmark is best known for his book Life 3.0 about what the world might look like as artificial intelligence continues to improve.
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Tegmark was born in Sweden to Karin Tegmark and American-born professor of mathematics Harold S Shapiro.
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Max Tegmark was an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving tenure in 2003.
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Max Tegmark's research focuses on machine learning after an earlier phase focused on cosmology, combining theoretical work with new measurements to place constraints on cosmological models and their free parameters, often in collaboration with experimentalists.
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Max Tegmark has over 300 publications, of which nine have been cited over 500 times.
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Max Tegmark has developed data analysis tools based on information theory and applied them to cosmic microwave background experiments such as COBE, QMAP, and WMAP, and to galaxy redshift surveys such as the Las Campanas Redshift Survey, the 2dF Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Max Tegmark has formulated the "mathematical universe hypothesis", whose only postulate is that "all structures that exist mathematically exist physically".
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In 2014, Max Tegmark published the book Our Mathematical Universe, which presents his idea at greater length.
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Max Tegmark suggests that the theory is simple in having no free parameters at all, and that in those structures complex enough to contain self-aware substructures, these SASs will subjectively perceive themselves as existing in a physically "real" world.
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Max Tegmark was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012 for, according to the citation, "his contributions to cosmology, including precision measurements from cosmic microwave background and galaxy clustering data, tests of inflation and gravitation theories, and the development of a new technology for low-frequency radio interferometry".
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Max Tegmark has courageously tackled these existential questions in his research and, in a commendable way, succeeded in communicating the issues to a wider public.
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Max Tegmark married astrophysicist Angelica de Oliveira-Costa in 1997, and divorced in 2009.